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thing more important to the convenience, comfort ahd safety of your home than your service entrance. This entrance is usually the result of careful planning and is considered the key to an adequate and safe home wiring system.
The capacity of your service entrance limits or controls the amount of electricity you can get into your home at any one time and should be designed to meet your complete electrical needs, both now and in the future.
The capacity of a service entrance is measured in amperes, the unit for measuring the rate of flow of electricity, just as the term ‘gallons per minute’ measures the flow in a water system.
There are three sizes of service entrances in general use in this area. They are the 60 ampere, 100 ampere and 200 ampere. The smallest of the three, the 60 ampere can only efficiently meet the electrical needs of homes where lighting, the usual small appliances, electric cooking, and the common appliances like TV, washing machine, radio, etc. are in use The 100 ampere service entrance is designed to handle all the jobs done by the 60 ampere entrance with such additions as a water heater, dryer, and room airconditioner. The largest of the three, the 200 ampere entrance can carry the electrical burden for all the items carried by the 100 amp entrance yet has enough excess capacity to handle the electrical requirements of complete airconditioning and electric heating systems plus the addition of new appliances still to come.
Unfortunately, most homes in this area are struggling along with a service entrance that is woefully incapable of handling the electrical requirements of today’s home. Symptoms of such inadequate entrances and wiring are found in slow heating irons, toasters, and percolators, shrinking TV pictures, slow running refrigerators. washers, vacuum claners and power tools, dimming lights and fading radios.
And it -is to be recommended that there are many new uses of electricity coming in the future that 'will require additonal entrance capacity. The entrance can well be the major bottleneck in your ability to live better electin'
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